Bernie Ryngpease

Bernie Ryngpease was the owner of the Highway Hotel in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Biography
Bernie Ryngpease was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, and he became the owner of the Highway Hotel on the Observer Highway and Newark Street. He was on close personal terms with Don Victor Stracci, and he charged high prices for hotel rooms, as they were hard to come by in New Jersey. He allowed for Al Bellagio to run a craps game on the top floor of the hotel, and his business was taken over by Corleone crime family enforcer Aldo Trapani in January 1946.